Considers how self-critique is difficult and is often accompanied by an acute form of self-doubt that leads writers/educators to believe that many of their kind may be more ambivalent about their pedagogies than they let on. Concludes that reflective practices are valid goals for teachers, and they should not ignore the problems and doubts…

Examines the range of meanings evoked by a particular photograph as a means of challenging readers to consider the complexity of teacher research. (SR)

Suggests that rather than establish normative criteria, it may be more fruitful to find ways to engage teachers in critical reflection on their own practice and teaching. Constructs a series of questions to create conditions for such reflection. (Author/CCM)

Presents a continuing conversation about the meaning of the term "environment" as it appeared in a newly-released environmental-education-policy statement. Studies how writing plays an important role in getting at the core assumptions and values of reflective teachers and researchers, and representing such thinking to the reader. (Author/CCM)

Presents a process in which nursing graduate students describe their personal stories of time pressures, identify the common elements in their stories, and reflect on their inner voice, leading to recognition of personal knowing. (SK)

Calls for the crucial need to incorporate alternative approaches into everything teachers do and the mistakes teachers make in the classroom. Discusses three specific instructional trouble areas of every teacher's reality and common mistakes. (ASK)

Focuses on the selection and creation of mathematical tasks, drawing on QUASAR's research on mathematical tasks and experiences with teachers and teacher educators. Presents examples of task analysis and issues that teachers should reflect on. (ASK)

Introduces a special section in this journal dealing with reflective classroom culture as a part of the portfolio process. Discusses the social nature of reflection, and the benefits of reflection (self-evaluation) for students and for teachers. (SR)

Argues that two theoretical components of a model known as the Conceptual Change Model (CCM) are beneficial constructs for teachers to use when helping students negotiate scientific discourse. Contains 34 references. (DDR)

An adventure educator describes his process of "waking up" to awareness of the role of ethics in professional practice. Four critical incidents in this process involved the obligation to protect clients from undue harm, responsibility to continually assess one's professional competence, duty to share information with peers, and…

Examines some reasons for the gap between teacher education and school practices, a potential conflict between teacher educator's views and pre-service teacher's own views of their learning, and negligence in examining the discourses within which educational practices are constituted. (Contains 37 references.) (Author/ASK)

Two beginning nurse educators used reflective practice to shape ideas about clinical teaching. Techniques such as journal writing, audiotaped debriefing, and a "critical friend" helped support and inform their reflection and improve teaching and learning. (SK)

Discusses the ineffectiveness of the lecture method when used with heterogeneous populations. Describes the development of a course designed to be responsive to the way students learn and how they are motivated to learn. (DDR)

Describes the evolution of an introductory astronomy course from fact driven to concept driven. Presents a rationale for a course designed to engage students in considering answers to the questions "what are we?" and "how do we know what we know?" (DDR)

Explores how case methods may be used to foster habits of praxis--that is, critical, reflective practices that enable beginning teachers to adapt to the many diverse contexts they will encounter in the field. Results suggest that student teachers: (1) understood an associated analytical framework; (2) effectively analyzed curriculum and pedagogy;…